Illustrated landscape plate: Yucatan Cenotes, North America
Yucatan Cenotes

NA20 · Northern America · Great Plains

Southern Prairie Mixed Grasslands

Shortgrass and mixed-grass prairie roll across the southern and central Great Plains from the Dakotas to Texas. A dry, windy climate with hot summers shaped bison grasslands used by Comanche, Kiowa, Cheyenne and Lakota nations; today much is ranch and farmland.

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